The question of 'set-sets', people whose nervous systems have been rewired to interface with computers, has caused riots in the recent past. However, there are still tensions among political groups, such as distribution of land, citizens, and income. This peace and plenty is delicately maintained by the relationships among a small cadre of world leaders. Criminals are sentenced to indentured servitude to repay their debt to society there is no death penalty. Surveillance is universal individuals are equipped with personal tracker devices which allow for telecommunication and record a person's whereabouts (as the name suggests), but these can be switched off. Religion is legally restricted to private counseling relationships or sanctuary reservations. Families are no longer nuclear, but are organized into co-housing collectives called bash'houses (from the Japanese i-basho, meaning 'home' but stronger). Everyone is publicly gender neutral, using they/them pronouns. The workweek is 20 hours, but vocateurs, or vokers, voluntarily work much more because they love what they do. The Earth of Terra Ignota has seen several centuries of near-total peace and prosperity. 4.7.1 Andō and Danaë's adopted children, unfinished 'Oniwaban' set-sets.

4.5.1 The Saneer-Weeksbooth bash'house (family).1.1.1 The Universal Free Alliance Senate.

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